Hollywood Handbook - Zach Cherry, Our Podcast Friend

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

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this is a head gum podcast new audio recording hit the drop down arrow hit h6 and under quality hit maximum that's what's been wrong with my performance yeah you haven't hit the drop it was on high it was on high i've seen you hit the whoa but i haven't seen you hit the drop down arrow and maybe that's what's been missing. Everyone is recording. Geneva, look. Geneva, look.

I'm hitting the woe. Yes, confirmed. Honey? Honey, look. Look quickly. Look quickly. I'm hitting the woe. Over here.

Right now, you're not looking? You're not looking? I'm hitting the woe? I lost it. Well, great. The woe's gone. And you didn't see it. I hit it so Well, great. The woe's gone. And you didn't see it. I hit it so much that time.

Oh, the song. Only two minutes too late. Being so funny about hitting the woe. Leave in the stuff that we need from the comedy we were doing. Maybe move the song. Maybe move the song up. Because... Or can we extend the song somehow?

Can we slow it down for this episode? New verse. A new verse at the... Here come Hayes and Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean. A new verse at the beginning. Boom, boom. Yeah yeah that could be cool if we had a sick slowed down version zach would you like that you're a listener you're a fan of the show would that fucking freak you out man would you be like you tell us what the wrong thing or would you be like um yes please like what how what do you... W-Y-D.

What I like what? I missed... Zach! I was taking a pull on my Sanzo. The Ubermensch. Yeah. I don't think they should call you the Ubermensch. Yeah it's i've been confused by that myself it's uncomfortable for me i don't like saying it you know and it comes up a lot you do one uber eats commercial

and it started before that no that was what made uber think of you right well i guess let's let's fucking pull this guy into our giant ponzi scheme i just read an article such a scam allegedly i hope you cast your check because i that thing that's going to be just a piece of paper pretty soon allegedly yeah an article just came up on my apple have you read this article on yournextshoes.com about you yeah have you seen this sack i i sent this to haze earlier because i don't know i'm not sure i've seen it actors if you're not sure you haven't yeah actor zach cherry actor zach cherry zactor cherry confuses viewers with uber eats commercial appearance now that's interesting feedback published published december 9th 2022 updated december 3rd 2023 yeah still confused man no clarification incoming the viewers myself included did have a bit of a wtf moment what was confusing about it

what the fuck was going on dog like what's happening if you where are you you're in this weird negative space yeah like i don't really understand what i'm looking at and then you're acting like it's fine is it part of the show what what show do you mean well good i'm glad to hear you say that i'm glad to hear you say that because we did have a pretty, I think, productive meeting last time about the show that you were on. Yeah. I'm glad you brought it up. I did want to talk about that. Seven pence or whatever.

Yeah. And that was, to me, yeah. It's interesting you said productive. Seven pence, none the richer, yes? Mm-hmm. One greater than six pence i did bring it up i did i'm glad too because i want to talk about it you considered it productive well yes it has been because now i'm looking i go on my apple tv and i see that you've I go on my Apple TV and I see that you've made some kind of change because there's not any of the stuff that I was looking at before that I was so frustrated by. And that whether you're making a new entirely different show or whether you're just transitioning

fully over to the Uber Eats commercial, which I'm on board for the idea of. I just want it to be clarified for me how to engage with it. Also, when I'm yelling at you during it, like what I want for food and stuff, it hasn't been super satisfying for me. You act you can't hear me i'm hungry you won't you won't give me the bag yeah i'm trying to secure the bag the bag is sitting right there unsecured right yeah well i can't hear you i filmed that maybe three years ago so that's you know you couldn't hear three years ago

well and it's a very insensitive question to ask um that's ableist haze that's wait i have another i actually couldn't i was getting ahead with a water balloon i have a different could not hear um yeah for about three weeks a A frozen water balloon. Did Uber Eats also... Thinking of how that episode was produced... It was branded with frozen. It had Elsa and Olaf on the cover. It was a normal water balloon,

but the graphic on it was Disney's Frozen. Did Uber Eats also... Stop me when I'm wrong. Like us, use your uber eats commercial appearance to try to book ben stiller at an uber eats commercial yeah i you know that is what i wanted to talk about i i listened to the ben episode uh and i'm not i'm not mad you know i it i it was really it was fun uh It was great. I'm glad you guys had him on.

I just didn't know. Here's the beginning. I listened to a really funny, good, triumphant episode of a show. Sure you can here. And I'm not mad. Yeah, I'm not. Oh, okay. Oh, I'm relieved.

I just didn't know that it was sort of my appearance was that transactional and that it was a stepping stone kind of situation um i thought oh no zach we we wanted to talk to you yeah well that's fine and i i'm now that i know what it is i'm gonna this is a i'm gonna use this platform as a stepping stone i want to try and get on some of the like podcasts. Maybe Jake. I don't know what he does. Jake Johnson, I know you've had on. Comedy Bang Bang, I know you guys were on. We have had Jake Johnson on.

When were you guys on? We gave him the idea for having a podcast. Sorry, what was it? Comedy Bang Bang? Yeah. We've been on Comedy Bang Bang. Right. When were we on?

Which time? I've been on almost four times in the past 12 years. What do you want to do, Zach? What do you think? Your A block? I'm not sure. I have sort of a backlog start working on your characters characters i've been workshopping and maybe i'll just do them for the rest of the episode because you know what's your character idea i have like fifth workshop a character okay great introduce me i run a small business okay it's it's and and now we're welcoming to the studio busy smalls the and and what's your

story now i haven't been on the show i'm sorry i don't mean to interrupt i haven't been on company bang bang does scott normally pick the name for you before when you come on you just said introduce you just said i run a small business and okay so sorry this is what he would do and what all it says here is small business owner uh okay so tell us we're excited to have you excited to hear more about your small business what kind of small business do you my name is busy smalls okay so that is you agree that is the best name for this character what do you mean i agree that is the best name that's my birth name okay sorry uh scott is so much better at like staying in it than i am uh do you want to do jake's podcast or whatever no i have a

we are doing jake's podcast we are exactly i said i was gonna work i said i was gonna workshop we will do jake's podcast someday i said i was I was going to workshop. We will do Jake's podcast someday. I said I was going to workshop, or Jake won't have a podcast anymore, is the truth, if he doesn't have us on at some point. So I said I was going to workshop a character with you. You might notice I looked at my phone. I had a comedy bang-bang character idea that I wrote down.

Okay, great. Maybe I'll use yours. And it is transactional. I'm willing to get this to you. Busy Smalls, we can all agree you didn't stick the landing. Okay. Some of it was bad luck. You know what I mean? Some of it was not on you.

Some of it was. You were reading while I was doing it. Hayes was hosting. Hayes was hosting. I was B-blocked. That's going to happen when you're there. Will Hines is going to be reading his phone while you're doing your character. You're C-blocked.

He's going to be across from you reading his phone and then he's going to come in and be he's not the host of the show but that's fine i that's what i'm saying hayes is being scott hayes is hosting the show another person will be across i'm telling you i've done the show zach yeah i've been on it so i'm a resource for you okay i'm telling you what's gonna happen great hayes hayes as scott is going to be doing his thing interviewing you paget brewster was a block and so paget brewster is there she's super game she's like she's trying to get in with your character she's being she's being helpful okay great she's waiting for a moment you be paget sure he has his kevin was being paget he had he hadn't found a spot to engage yet because you were struggling with the busy smalls idea which is not something to be ashamed of

i have a more full character okay great i have something for you okay Okay. And I have good news about it. It's probably going to need to wait until Halloween to be premiered. And so we have time to work on it between now and then. We can get this right. I think the other thing with Busy Smalls is it felt rushed. Am I the only one who felt that?

Well, sure. That hit, you know, I felt a little boxed in when i got i worked best in that environment so yes the answer is yes but that wasn't an issue for me i instantly came up with busy smalls and hayes you were perfect we didn't even get to the backstory like why busy was there we didn't even know we we didn't you you did not allow us the room to explore that because it was so uncomfortable for everyone what you were doing and i think in in terms of like halloween time and i know look it's a bit of a trope at this point right that there are sexy versions of a lot of uh different halloween costume characters and i think that what you could

be doing is coming on to debut yourself as the new sexy mummy and that's so much of sexiness right is showing your body so like first step let's lose all these bandages uh-huh like that feels like that feels like it's not appealing like it's not really enticing for anyone like all the bandages yeah they're tight fitting but we need to lose 90 of them i would also say i've never understood what the mummy's job is, but you should probably be like the VP of marketing for Oikos yogurt or something. Okay.

Like I think you should have a job title that is also like, it sounds like you're making good money and you're, you know, you know your way around a yogurt cup if you, if you catch my meaning. And so VP, VPM. Mm hmm. And I think like there's probably other ways because you're such a gifted performer to add, you know, a comedic angle.

I don't know what you want to do with the sort of like roar like sound that the mummy is usually making when they wake up. Yeah. And that's something else. Are you falling asleep? Just to set you up for success here, like some of the other logistical elements, just so like you're prepared to do this character. So like every year, halloween episode is a pretty big opportunity like this is like a big one for comedy bang bang i know huge cbb is like my carson that's like getting an invite to the couch you know carson daly daily yep shut the

time square daily time and not to add a hurdle on that catch but paget has a hard out so we gotta rush so paget is saying that in third person just before the recording starts she's got a hard out so you gotta get to it quick we're i'm not as worried about but this is the halloween episode like no offense to paget love paget but like you're done you're not in this episode this is a halloween episode we're getting like we have like 10 people in studio for this yes we have a lot of and we have people who really probably specialize in characters this will make it feel less like i had a lot of stuff for paget it's out of respect for paget that we're not having her just do like eight minutes on the halloween episode like she she gets when does the show, she gets a full block.

The general structure of the show, excuse me, I'm talking, the general structure of the show, Zach, with the A block, et cetera, with Paget and guests, is sort of a main course, side dish, side dish. An episode like the Halloween episode is more of a gumbo style meal where there are all these elements that are being equally represented and complementing each other

so for you is the sexy mummy going i'm a mummy you know i had to lose the bandages i also wanted nice clothes looks like i got a little bit of money after all i'm vp of marketing at oikos so like the bandage elements gone um you know the stiff movements obviously not super appealing and so that is gone and you're kind of like removing you know all these classic mummy elements yeah and i want to yeah i want to finish like setting you up just to address any concerns here. Yeah. Obviously a big part of the Halloween episode historically is Nick Weiger does a song called the monster fuck, which is like a sexualized monster thing.

And so in this gumbo, we want you to be the, the crawdad. We don't want you having to compete with like other crawdads that are like doing a similar so don't do the monster fuck yeah i mean we do basically want you to do it it's like a similar go right at it do it even we don't want we don't want why weiger is not going to be there weiger we will like we will do what needs to be done to make sure that Weiger is not participating this year. Let me and Hayes worry about Weiger.

We will be making a call. Let Weiger's family worry about Weiger when me and Hayes have finished doing what needs to be done. Right before the record, I will be calling Weiger and informing him that Ratchet and Clank want to meet him at Lover's Peak. In person, yes. yes okay so he will have the opportunity to have a three-way to wear to wear a blindfold for the for the most metallic kiss of his life yes so okay so i can that means i can decide to do or not do the monster fuck i can play it by ear kind of and don't worry about me i will take care of giving weiger making sure that he comes out of this feeling feeling good about like how it all

went down he is gonna have a ride of his life no it will it it will be viewed in hindsight by weiger as one of the best afternoons he's ever spent at lover's peak what i'll say about you doing the monster fuck is if you are gonna do it it should be sort of a highly it's all it's the song has sexual content now but he's doing it in this sort of like old voice i think it should be like a sexed up like marilyn monroe singing happy birthday mr president type sound that we're introducing for and is that the should that also be the speaking voice for the mummy or do you think we can find it we can find it a little bit you know we have it sounds like you're really asking to have it all figured out but it feels like you have a

take on that do you want to try doing the show a little bit i mean i i am a lot of my stuff i need paget there with me for it to work so i don't know if i can do a lot of the stuff with paget gone so would you rather do busy smalls were you more comfortable with that i thought we had moved away from it, but maybe that's good. I don't know. I'm definitely, I've been sitting with Busy Smalls for like four or five minutes now,

so I have a little more of a handle on that. Have you been doing this whole time? You haven't been crafting the sexy mummy character with us? Well, no. He's going to be doing that while we do whatever the next thing is that we do. Then he'll be doing the sexy mummy character with us well no i i can he's gonna be doing that while we do whatever the next thing is that we do then he'll be doing the sexy mummy character when we're trying to do the next thing

that's how he worked you understand that's how he works no i see that i mean it's uh you're like me zach i mean unfortunately i have this ability to kind of step outside myself during the show even as i'm hosting and observe all the dynamics and view it editorially, directorially. Well, and it doesn't affect my performance within the show at all. Like, I'm still performing to an insanely high level. People don't know that I have checked out,

but I am watching, and I'm seeing what you're bringing, I'm seeing, and I'm operating it all're bringing i'm seeing and i'm and i'm operating it all okay ding okay go for kevin go go i'm in the control room at studio 60 on the sunset strip going like okay swing the the camera and go go go all right bring it in get the dancers you know cue uh felicity huffman like you know like let's get this moving like all of that i'm working that and so you were saying can you move the song back because hayes was hitting the woe correct we we have we haven't been talking about the woe for so long we We barely talked about it. The woe section of this episode is regretfully over. Okay.

We will talk about it again next episode. It will be one of the listeners' favorite parts. But I think for today... Sure. Okay, sorry. I don't know if we have room because we have so much to do to get ready for Comedy Bang Bang.

And we do still need to talk a little bit about the apple show which i'm i'm i'm happy you took the notes i'm sorry to hear that it's become just a new breeds commercial but maybe we can get some of the other gang from that commercial to come on the show you know would any of your co-stars from that possibly want to do an episode of hollywood handbook okay see and now this see now we're getting back to what my issue was it feels again like i'm just here to sort of be almost a phone book or uh a rolodex or or something like that whereas that's i'm here to serve me so i'm wanting to see how i can be helped here and we we didn't even get to any of my characters we didn't we didn't we didn't even get to any of the characters you've

done two characters i've died did did you hear me do sexy mummy well we offered you the opportunity honest about something i don't think you're gonna want the honest answer did you hear me do Sexy Mummy? I didn't, but it wasn't for lack of trying on your part. I'm getting a lot of interesting feedback today because I don't remember doing it at all. Maybe I blacked out for a little bit during the episode. I agree you didn't do it at all.

I'm not sure. I agree you didn't do it at all i agree you didn't do it at all what did i say it was a lot of this i mean it was these kinds of questions you know but let's try it i mean let's hear sexy mummy you had a take on the voice um so let's get into that and then we'll get back to whether or not you're a phone book you would not want to be a phone book on this show, Hayes. We'll rip you in half. Rip you in half. Okay.

Famously. A Rolodex? Mm-hmm. You wouldn't want to be a Rolodex on this show. Okay, a digital address book. Mm-hmm. Kevin will smear his greasy fingers all over your screen, and no one will be able to see anything. Okay. Well, and and also we're agreed i don't want to be that but that's how i am being used okay i you know maybe that's your next character right digital address book and we'll see if sexy mummy

that i like kevin also that i like you don't want him to be holding the device with the digital address book because he's had so much charged lemonade that he can't appear on a lithium battery. Also, you remember what happened? He's sort of like Detective Pikachu. He's got this sort of... Spoiler alert. Well, he has an electronic kind of lightning power. Yeah, spoiler alert.

And he has the Rai Wit. But I'm ready when you are. Okay. I'm ready for you to be ready. Hayes, you want to be Scott? Sure. Sure. go go go go go go go go go one two three now hey everybody this is scott ackerman i'm excited to do my show comedy bang bang today's guest it says here that you uh all I have about

you here is that you are a small business owner what uh what is the business that you own sir I used to be a mummy but now I am a digital address. Excuse me. He was talking to me. And this will happen. Okay. Okay. This will happen on the show. You got scooped. There's not a clear order. Don't they tell you what order you go in?

Yeah, but they don't say how long. Yeah, they don't say for how long. You went first. And also the small business owner like that really set me up for my thing what was your thing i was i i was a a gentleman who owns a sticky underwear business okay okay sure no your underwear comes flying off if somebody pants is you the underwear comes down too because it's not sticky enough yeah well maybe i can use that as part of my thing uh your underwear comes off we can all use it yeah sorry that's what i'm just established how

it's useful that's what i meant yeah it's really useful i'm interested in this guy i want to hear from this guy what's what's your name sir okay i used to be a mummy no i'm not talking to you he was talking to me yeah what's your what's your name friend adjit brewster he's talking to me i'm uh corporal hornbottom corporal i remember you i was alive back then what the fuck what voice is this that's corporal hornbottom i was alive back then well corporals are kind of like do we still use that rank or isn't that an old rank we we use we do use it yeah we still use it it's actually really important yeah okay it's actually used more than ever now sorry i meant that

sorry sorry you bet this is like the kind of marilyn monroe type voice that you were you were excited to try out well no i want to say that i want to save that for the song okay you know in the lion king save that for the song. Am I right or am I wrong? I want to save that for the song. Okay. You know, in The Lion King, it's a different boy who sings the song. Which Lion King? 94,

2021, stage. 94. Okay. Lion Guard? No. Was that a question i'm not allowed to watch i'm so excited bro i'm not allowed to watch movies back bro the industry was illegal to watch movies back when i was around we are about to have the most badass year in this industry man like after the summer of movies

after everything we've went through this is it's gonna be so fire this year bro did you guys that is i'm i'm you know i have margot robbie's phone number so okay so this is the digital address book character it's the same is being worked in the i don't mind the mummy having everyone's phone number like well he works as an address book okay so then oikos yogurt is just no he used to no one markets them but it didn't come up yet all right you don't think you don't think you develop a strong list of contacts being the VP of marketing at Oikos? No, I didn't say that.

I didn't say that. How do you think I got Margot Robbie's number? I think that what I'm going to do in terms of people giving each other their numbers is i'm just gonna kind of let you have kevin's number and if he's able to connect you with scott you guys can go and figure out the show are you a do not disturb guy at night? I don't have a phone. You don't have to be the phone anymore. I'm closer to being a phone than having it. The only thing your character would say in response to that is,

I already have his number. I'm a digital address book. I don't have a phone is not an appropriate response for that character to make. It's certainly not going to break the reality that we've created and the reality is paper thin. But there's one aspect

to it, which is that you're a digital address book. We were just talking about someone's contact information. Okay. What's so beautiful about this style of comedy, Zach, is that you look at people doing a play or something and you realize that there have been a million micro decisions agreed upon

before they come on stage. What costumes they're going to wear, what setting they're in, what location. It's not just the words that they're going to say. It's the entire context for where the words take place and what the history of those people is we don't have that all we have is an agreement to agree and when someone says i'm a digital very first play i saw it what was the first play called malcolm in the middle what was it about like that

uh the sun god malcolm okay uh-huh what was he in the middle of yeah what was he in the middle of? Yeah, what was he in the middle of, I guess? The moon and the stars. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You feel like you're making a joke. That was a joke. Okay. Uh-huh. All right. This could work.

I mean, this could definitely work. See, you were so skeptical of it. No, I know, and i think i brought my own bullshit to it my own baggage my my preconceived notion of what this thing was going to be and it turns out that it's just he's he's very old and and he has seen the first play oh i forgot to mention i don't have a bandage on. And now I actually am able to enjoy it, both from what I wanted it to be and what it is. I'm wearing a suit, a Valentino.

The mummy conceit has not been brought into this so far. I think that would have been helpful to introduce the idea of not having a bandage on to have established something about you you being a mummy before okay i have an idea that did not happen okay how did i wear an abandoned sores how did i get these sores yeah okay is that it's not quite the same wording as like the joker thing you want to know how i got these sores wait what is it in joker in joker he says want to know how i got these how yeah scars no in joker he he doesn't say that in joker he says i have a disease

okay i didn't see that not my kind of movie i'm not you're so you're saying the dark in the dark night the joker says want to know how i got yes okay uh scars well you said in joker he says i have a disease yeah yeah i know buddy like i know you said joker like i know movies we're excited about movies this year actually we think that the industry is about to have a massive we are gonna have a record after the shit we went through of bringing people joy and imagination beaming it right into their homes can i get a yep yep yep yep i'm gonna watch my first movie i cannot write to this you saw the first play i cannot talk to this character anymore i'd rather zach at this point let's not let's not i will actually

take the comedy bang bang appearance i think we've i think we cracked the character i think you actually figured out something very strong and that sc Scott will be very pleased that we did the prep work. You can now use sexy mummy on comedy. Bang, bang. Kevin will connect you to Scott. And for the rest of this Hollywood handbook episode, let's really talk about,

you know, what the show was originally about. Okay. Okay. Do I make you Randy? Actors, act cherry confuses audience yeah it's scrutable off the uber eats commercial you know do i make you run away from commercial appearance

do i make you randy i was trying to work in the sexy note yeah i guess what i'm saying is i don't want to hear any of it anymore i don't want to have you do it at all i i'm sorry i brought it up i want that to be for comedy bang bang this is hollywood handbook let's just do hollywood handbook great talk about this great okay amazing industry we are in that has been through hell and back. It's our final record. I feel like I got what I needed. Our final record before 2024.

Yes. And so it's time to make some predictions. Predictions. This is when we put on our Nostradamus helmets. That's my friend. Okay. That's my friend. Okay. That's pretty good. Yeah, I set you up for that.

I didn't even realize that you saw the opening. You took it. Since we're all happy with it, maybe we can have that be the last time the character appears. We all liked it. Let's end on a high note great um uh just like we're doing with this year which we're ending with a really great episode that

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but you'll always be glad you did it. Kind of like this podcast, except it is easy for me. Hollywood Handbook. We're getting so many incredible opportunities. Paramount and WB. Do you hear about this? Do you know about that? Zach?

I'm talking to Zach. To Zach only. Do I know about that? No, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to your Twitter. Do I know about that? No. Padgett, no.

You're not interested in that, Padgett. Very interested. Thumbs up for Padgett. No, Padgettant very interested thumbs up for pageant no pageant is not giving thumbs up to that she's not interested do not sing the monster fuck do not say do not sing the monroe monster fuck please that is not gonna get us where we need to go we have to talk about so we have to talk about the Paramount WB murder Paramount you know Hayes basically parent trapped

these two great legacy studios because they both love movies they have so much in common they should be together WB especially loves movies because they want the movie to be just right you know they won't let it they won't put out unless it's perfect for

everybody no they will not protect the brand not just of warner brothers but of film you know who you know who i've always said protects must be saved film tom cruise the guy loves movies ethan hunt ethan hunt yes jerry mcguire and well played a version of me once he wasn't he wasn't playing i didn't see it but i was told by my friend he didn't play the the mummy itself he didn't play me the mummy in that was a woman she was sort of a sexy mummy honestly okay based on me and we're getting into some kind of accent the tagline was she is real but it read like she's real what she is real it looked like she is real we can talk i would i don't want to talk about the mummy at all

i want to talk about okay let's talk about we weren't talking about the mummy he was talking but that's fine paramount wb merger new justice league new members ethan hunt's wife michelle monaghan is joining the Justice League. Along with... How about that? Because that's a paramount character. But now they can be... They can actually combine them.

I'm drooling. I'm losing my mind because the Avengers... I'm sorry, not the Avengers, but the Justice League has so many great heroes, but what they don't have is sky from paw patrol sky from paw patrol is joining the justice league along with kid notorious kid notorious uh is chester the robert evans cartoon character from comedy central is a paramount ip and he will be joining the justice league he will be along with this is a prediction or you have this on

this is a prediction and it is patrick the starfish patrick star is joining the justice man and the newest he's with aquaman wait aquaman spongebob crossover this is exploding my brain no aquaman is so aquaman is shut up wait can the mummy not get wet i can't get wet you're not wearing a band that would normally because of your bandage but your whole thing is you're not wearing a bandage you're wearing a but i still have a ptsd like the joker i have a disease that accent needs to be turned all the way down yeah it is it is. It is making me uncomfortable. I don't know on whose behalf, but there's something about it that would feel right to me.

Well, the mummy, we don't know where he's from. He didn't say. Yeah. But where are you thinking? You're clearly thinking somewhere. Is this just an olden times accent? And I don't want to know where. It doesn't just feel like an olden times.

What about this? Paramount WB merger. Imagine its ridiculousness, but they're just watching Looney Tunes clips. Uh-huh. Ooh. Oh, show me that again.

Oh, damn. Chanel West Coast sees Daffy Duck blow his beak all the way around to the back of his head and does a full lap around the studio. What? Just losing it. Ouch.

just losing it ouch we cannot start a new year like this year we're talking about the industry but we're really talking about us we need this please listen to me we need this year to be

different we need this year to be different when We need this year to be different. When we talk about what the industry has gone through, we're talking about us. We're talking about what we went through. The strike was supposed to be really good for us. And it was the pandemic. Generously neutral.

It was all set up for us being the only game in town you know what i mean because we didn't have that other stuff going on so when everyone else had to stop doing that there was just our thing and we absolutely fucking flushed it we took that opportunity and we fucking flushed it and it is never we set it on fire in the toilet and we ruined the toilet and we flushed it while it was still on fire and it fucked up the toilet really bad the toilet doesn't work now is what we're telling you and and in 2024 we need to get a functioning toilet going so that's what we're talking about have you haze mentioned us let me let me tell you a quick story okay haze mentioned that the goal was for us to be the only

game in town and i was transported back to my 11th birthday party which was held at a business establishment called The Only Game in Town. Go-karts, batting cages, video games, mini golf. I was excited and a little scared as well. I go into the batting cages. It's fast pitch, which I haven't done, but I'm being brave. it's fast pitch which i haven't done but i'm being brave first swing i swing so hard that i spin all the way around and my helmet goes flying off of me into the back of the batting cage area all your band i have been i have been told by being so fast your bandages all fall off well i wasn't wearing bandages but if you'll allow me to continue i had been told by the employees that it was very important to always have your helmet on when you're in there so i panic immediately and start sprinting back to grab the helmet of course bringing myself directly into the course of the the boss being pitched so i was so scared that i was in danger because

the helmet would come off that i put myself into more danger ran back bent over to pick up the helmet and and and got bean directly in the head with a with a baseball at my own birthday party bag of the head sir fell down hurt grabbed the thing got hit again in like the shoulder rib area and kind of crawled off to the side and yeah didn't do the batting cages again for quite some time so i could have probably used some bandages at the end of that but actually this year the opportunity we had this year was the equivalent where 2023 the strike every that was supposed to be our birthday birthday right we stepped up into the batting cages you know we had big guests like ben stiller that's a fastball and right over the middle how did you get him that's not important

you're i guess in this scenario you're my parents who drove me to the to the only game in town me i don't have kids i was sterilized so your thing is that it's sexy to not have kids i was sterilized when i made mummy what okay that's part of the mummification process that you made mum it's like a tear you reach yes they take out all of that stuff oh that's right everything down through the nose right they go they go straight down through the nose and for me through the nose me, you needed a long hook.

Uh-huh. Because your nose is really far away. No, sorry. No. Same distance to the base, but extra long hook to get to the tip. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Of the scrotum so big balls big balls yeah i know that's fucking awesome dude like that's part of what i wanted you know wanted to get into earlier with the mummy but i am now reliving something and realizing that i have repeated the pattern again damn we had been on we swung so hard we spun all the way around and our helmets came off we were exposed and the rest of the year has just been us getting fucking pinged in the fucking dome piece by fastball after fastball jake johnson goes and starts a much bigger podcast. Kevin goes to work with him. And us, after trying to... We're back at the starting line.

It just doesn't feel good. And we've spent the entire last year trying to undermine the industry, keep it from returning however we could. And now the Justice League is adding fucking... Undermine the unions, all that. Kid Notorious. Yes, Kid Notorious is in the Justice League.

And it's like, well, we're not going to undermine that. It's come back stronger than ever. Shit. Well, if I can help in any way, if you guys need me to put you in touch with anybody, I am a digital address book. Okay, well, you asked before how we got Ben Stiller, so I'm not... I was wondering how you got him.

I could get him. All right. Well, I... Okay, well, I would like more... Yes, I'd like more addresses than... We need him. We need him again. We need his again.

And we really want to do it right this time. Yeah. I don't think I can do him again. We need him again. And we really want to do it right this time. I don't think I can do Ben again. That probably, yeah. It's not like every episode. We're not asking for him to come back for every episode. We just need him to do another episode now. And that one, I mean, like, thank you. I want to say thank you.

It did take an insanely long time to book and when we do it again we we are going to need it to come together a little faster well when you're as old as me you move on a slower timeline okay the accent is getting more identifiable it's getting it's but it's it's it's all over the place but somehow it's it's verging on a more more specific territory new brunswick it's a little it's a little triumph the insult comic mummy for me it's not it's not like and you're not gonna have this much time to ramp up i want to say like there's gonna the studio's gonna like i And you're not going to have this much time to ramp up, I want to say.

The studio's going to... Like I said, there's going to be like 10, 12 people in there. You've been doing this character for over a half hour now. It's a long episode, but not that long, especially not for this character. They're asking you to hit a spot up three, not dribble out the clock. You know what I mean?

It is really you're kind of gonna need to be a microwave at it yes yeah okay okay okay okay good no that's fine you understand that's good great okay do you have any predictions as that does you have any predictions? Does Zach have any predictions for the industry in 2024? When is that going to happen? Theatrical. Theatrical's back in a big way. Theatrical is back. People are hungry.

They're hungry to be back. They're're hungry sharing space with each other looking in the same direction sitting there looking the same direction together Barbieheimer Barbenheimer returns have a big drink the drinks are so important for

overhead the drinks are back can we do busy smalls for a little bit the money and it's all gonna be drinks now you okay they have more drinks they're rolling out new drinks like more drinks thing there's gonna be a kid notorious flavored lemonade there's gonna be just like everything you could imagine like so much of the content is going to be in the drinks and that what they you know they're taking the charge aquaman salt water they're just rebranding it to kid notorious lemonade because that's like robert evans branded lemonade you would expect it to have like a proper way to kind of get you going a little bit it might might feel a little bit like

you took some of that Adam Pally powder. You know what I mean? Hoo-hoo! Who's that? Who was that? I am the drink spookness. This is Busy Smalls?

Yeah. I am the drinks business you sell drinks i'm sorry i was just overhearing you i was walking by and i heard oh no sure no sounds like uh have a seat i haven't actually heard this that the character is not has not was not in the studio i think they do that i think they do that sometimes i think they've done that before oh yeah well i guess i'm telling about the lemonade what'd you say we said a lot of different things we were talking about robert evans lemonade robert evans yes kid notorious branded lemonade things. We were talking about... Robert Evans Lemonade? Robert Evans, yes. Kid Notorious branded lemonade was what we were talking about.

Oh, man, I wish I had that one. Oh, that would be a big seller. You don't have that. Okay, what drinks do you have? What drinks do you have? Yeah. We got milk. Okay, still popular.

One of the drinks that you sell is milk. Oh, yeah. You own a drink business that has milk yeah okay all right milk's probably your number one we got eggs eggs are not eggs is one of the drinks i'll tell you not eggnog oh no i wish we had that one that'd be more popular probably than just eggs oh that would be a big seller okay so milk is doing well for you eggs are not doing well as a drink what else do you sell we got um a water looking something okay water okay looking something i'm checking my inventory okay so he did manage to find on a screen somewhere it said the word water so that's one of the drinks and that's a milk is selling better than sorry milk milk number one now i'm looking up now you're talking to the

same person throughout this is the same person no that was my assistant for a second okay but now this is the real this is the real character that we're talking to business this is busy smalls i'm seeing my assistant before you sell as a drink milk eggs oh no butter flour and sugar my assistant was joking okay okay so now here we are we're starting well your assistant is is a really funny trickster but i'm i'm so happy to have you here now and you can really get to the bottom of what the drinks are you have i know you're jealous of kid notorious lemonade that would be a big seller what do you have oh thank you for asking we have milk eggs water butter flour that's that's what you said that's what the assistant said before

it's the same that's what the assistant was joking about of course we say the same thing i would suggest you may you may want to think about starting like a cake company oh that's a good idea it feels it feels like you're close do you know what my real passion is no i love i'm worried that i do okay oh wow that's great we were just talking about we were trying to talk about that for a while oh yeah warner and paramount merger did you see that news yeah we did. We were just talking about it. What do you think is going to happen from that? Do you have any predictions for what's going to happen?

Well, I hope they make some sort of Robert Evans milk. Okay. Okay. I don't know. I don't know. It's going to be i don't know it's gonna be a fine it's gonna be a fine year it's gonna be fine bye it'll be fine bye hollywood handbook that was a hate gum podcast